The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Risto Milosevich grew up in East Los Angeles, California. During summer vacation he would repair concrete driveways to...

One of the guys that James Ramage was flying with looked back at one of the burning Japanese carriers and said, "Look...

It was amazing to Harold Ward to see how quickly they dumped stuff after the war was over. They were heading back to...

[Annotator’s Note: Can hear someone in the background throughout this segment.] Paul Hilton Madden Jr. was assigned to...

Kenneth Beckman was born in August 1922 in Somerville, Massachusetts. He was raised in Northampton, Massachusetts where...

Russell Hoff never thought he would die in a prisoner of war camp. There was a secret crystal radio kept in the POW...

John Noack got the emergency radio set up. Noack had a little difficulty getting everything set up. Noack got seasick...

Arles E. Cole [Annotator’s Note: a quartermaster on the USS West Virginia (BB-48) on the morning of 7 December 1941...

After the war ended with Japan [Annotator’s Note: 15 August 1945], Walter Guyote made a few trips to Japan [Annotator’s...

The general population was preparing, women too, to defend that island. Myers feels that if they did not drop the...

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